Khloe Kardashian and More Celebrities Open Up About Freezing Their Eggs

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Khloe Kardashian and More Celebrities Open Up About Freezing Their Eggs

Better safe than sorry! Halsey, Rita Ora and more celebrities have described their decisions to freeze their eggs. "When I tell people that, they’re like, ‘You’re 23, why do you need to do that? Why do you need to freeze your eggs?’” the “Bad at Love” singer said during an April 2018 The Doctors appearance. "Doing ovarian reserve is important for me, because I’m fortunate enough to have that as an option, and I need to be aggressive about protecting my fertility [and] about protecting myself.” The New Jersey native explained, "Reproductive illness is so frustrating because it can really make you feel like less of a woman. You don’t feel sexy, you don’t feel proud, and you don’t feel like there’s much hope, so taking these measures to make sure that I get to have a hopefully bright future and achieve the things that I want to achieve by doing the ovarian reserve is really important.” The Grammy nominee made this choice after suffering a miscarriage mid-concert and being diagnosed with endometriosis. “The sensation of looking a couple hundred teenagers in the face while you’re bleeding through your clothes and still having to do the show, and realizing in that moment that I never want to make that choice ever again of doing what I love or not being able to because of this disease,” Halsey said at the time. [jwplayer MpD1g1cJ-zhNYySv2] As for Ora, the “Girls” singer is a "big believer in using what we have and making the most of it,” she said during a November 2017 Sunrise appearance, adding that her family doctor recommended she freeze her eggs. “[He said], ‘You’re healthiest now and I think it would be great, why don’t you put them away now and you’ll never have to worry about it again?’” the English songwriter recalled at the time. "I know people might say, ‘Wow, that's so young.' I just wanted to really be safe." Keep scrolling to see more stars opening up about freezing their eggs, as well as embryos, from Keeping Up With the Kardashian’s Khloé Kardashian to Vanderpump Rules’ Scheana Shay.

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Daisy Kelliher

In May 2023, the Below Deck Sailing Yacht star shared in Hubbard's comments section via Instagram that she was currently in the process of freezing her eggs.

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Priyanka Chopra Jonas

"I did it in my early 30s," the Quantico alum said of her egg freezing journey during a March 2023 appearance on Dax Shepard's "Armchair Expert" podcast. "I could continue on an ambitious warpath that I wanted to achieve. I wanted to get to a certain place in my career. I also hadn't met the person I wanted to have children with or I didn't see that. That's anxiety-inducing."

The India native — who welcomed daughter Malti via surrogate with husband Nick Jonas in January 2022 — added that she tells "everyone" to undergo the procedure.

"It's the best gift you'll give yourself because you're taking the power from your biological clock, and you can work until however long you want. Your eggs will still be the same age as when you froze them," she explained.

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Olivia Culpo

“It’s in the process,” the Culpo Sisters star told Extra in November 2022 of deciding to freeze her eggs, noting she and boyfriend Christian McCaffrey are on the “same page” about family planning. “We definitely talk [about it]. He’s so busy right now [with] his career, [which] is obviously really important right now for him and he’s killing it, so we talk about it, but I don’t put a ton of pressure on it.”

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Lindsay Hubbard

"I finally found a couple of weeks/time to sit still enough in NYC to follow through with the egg freezing process!" the Summer House star announced in a lengthy Instagram post in May 2022. "Right now, I’m on my 3rd day of hormone injections (I started on Friday) and it’s really not so bad… but I have about another week to go, so we’ll see lol!"

She continued: "I talked to Carl [Radke] on the phone this morning (because he’s been out of town this wknd) and I teared up, then laughed hysterically at something, and then cried because my eyes are puffy and I feel like a pirate! 😂."

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Anna Marie Tendler

The artist told Harper’s Bazaar in January 2022 about her plans to freeze her eggs following her recent divorce, saying, “There were things I never even thought about before [while married to ex John Mulaney] because that was just a closed door. So now that it feels like not as much of a closed door, it’s something that I ruminate on a lot.”

The Connecticut native posted a photo appearing to give herself hormone injections the following month, captioned, "Eggs Over Easy." Tendler subsequently wrote on her Story: "I would like to clear up a common misnomer about my work. This is not a photo diary. I am never commenting on any one thing. I am rarely posting photos chronologically. I am a fine artist. These are standalone works that speak to the female experience at large. My life has been filled with a million experiences that are mined to create a body of work that is about something bigger than me.”

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Mary Fitzgerald

"I'm really gonna run out of time where I don't have an option,” the Selling Sunset star exclusively told Us in February 2022 of freezing her eggs. “So I just have to suck it up and do it.”

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Heather Rae Young

"We're going to freeze embryos first, go from there and then see what happens,” the Selling Sunset star said of he and Tarek El Moussa’s family plans during a November 2021 Daily Pop appearance.

After previously having low fertility and a low egg count, the Netflix personality opened up about freezing her eggs in December 2021, months after her wedding.

“Going to be sharing my fertility process on ig, hope this can help some of you ladies 💗💗💗,” Heather captioned a TikTok video at the time, noting that she previously froze six healthy eggs before checking her levels again.

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Ariana Madix

The Vanderpump Rules star opened up about freezing her eggs in a November 2021 episode of the Bravo show, saying, "This does not mean that I'm jumping on the baby train. It’s about having agency over my own body and my own future. It's also kind of a nice fun f--k you to anybody who questions my values or my choices."

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Barbara Bush

“Barbara froze her eggs and was planning, if she didn't meet somebody, to go ahead and do it, and then hopefully meet somebody else,” the Texas native’s twin sister, Jenna Bush Hager, revealed in a November 2021 “Making Space” podcast episode.

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Kaitlyn Bristowe

"I'm taking control of my future!" the former Bachelorette tweeted in March 2017. "As a woman there's always pressure to have babies, and this puts my mind at ease for when I'M ready."

Four years later, the Bachelor alum tweeted, "How do you like your eggs? I prefer mine frozen because I’m gonna have babies later in life. I have businesses to run."

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Chrishell Stause

The Selling Sunset star exclusively told Us Weekly in July 2021 that freezing her eggs helped her to avoid baby fever “stress,” explaining, "Right now, [motherhood] just not on my mind. I love that it’s there whenever I’m ready.”

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Francia Raisa

After freezing her eggs, the Grown-ish star no longer felt the need to “rush” into parenthood, she said during a June 2021 The Talk appearance. “I don't want to settle. I really want to wait for the right person. ... I really want to be friends with someone first and really know [them] because I don't want to have to worry about that again ever.”

While the process was “draining,” she encouraged other women to follow suit. “The recovery process is hard,” the actress said. “I had a lot of great support — and now I'm not afraid of needles as much!"

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Miranda Pearman-Maday

“We're not getting any younger,” Raven-Symone’s wife told Entertainment Tonight in a May 2021 interview. “Freezing your eggs so you just know that they're there and they're safe is a wonderful thing. And I think that's something that we will probably do.”

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Ashley Spivey

Following her May 2021 pregnancy loss, the Bachelor alum noted that she had four embryos “waiting to hopefully be brought in the world.” She wrote, "I really do not know what my mental state would be like right now if @lucky.sekhon hadn’t given me the advice to freeze my embryos while I was waiting for my body to heal after the devastating loss of [my late son], CJ. I received a lot of well-meaning advice in the weeks following CJ that encouraged me to try naturally but ultimately, this is why listening to professionals is important — statistically, my eggs are not good. I know that there is no guarantee here — but damn it, I have to remain hopeful."

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Chrissy Teigen

“I would have preferred to have had 21-year-old eggs over 28-year-old eggs, but that’s the way it worked out for us,” Teigen told Bustle in April 2021 of her fertility struggles. “But of course, it feels weird to tell a 20-year-old, ‘You have to freeze your eggs!’ when [getting pregnant] can happen for so many people.”

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Khloé Kardashian

During an April 2020 episode of her family's E! show, the Strong Looks Better Naked author considered using her then-ex Tristan Thompson's sperm to create embryos. "[Our daughter], True, does need a sibling," the athlete agreed at the time.

Since the Revenge Body host's "12 to 14" frozen eggs did not survive when they were defrosted and mixed with sperm, she said during a March 2021 Ellen DeGeneres Show appearance that she is "so grateful" she decided to make embryos with Thompson. "We realized that my eggs aren't strong enough to be frozen," Kardashian explained at the time. "They should be mixed immediately with sperm to make embryos."

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Kenya Moore

“[Marc Daly and I] did IVF because I had a history of being infertile … so I have some options,” the Real Housewives of Atlanta star said during a February 2021 Carlos Watson Show appearance. "I still have several embryos that are frozen and being stored. I nearly died having [my daughter], Brooklyn, and at age 50 next year, I don’t think that it would be the wisest thing for me to [carry another child]. Do I want one more? Yes. The answer is yes. Will I be brave enough to embark on that? I’m not sure yet."

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Rita Ora

The former America's Next Top Model host added that she wants a large family in the future. Ora went on to tell The Sunday Times in December 2020 that she first froze her eggs at age 24, and it did “hurt.” She explained that she wasn’t “the best with hormones,” adding, "I don’t want to feel the pressure of, ‘Oh, gosh, we’re running out of time.’ It’s not fair that we have to feel that, you know? And men sort of go around town, like, not thinking about it.”

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Rebel Wilson

"I was thinking about fertility and having good quality eggs in the bank, so I was like, 'OK, I'm going to do this. I'm going to get healthy,'" the Pitch Perfect star said of her weight loss journey in a December 2020 Instagram Live. She urged other "good career woman" to do the same.

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Ricky Martin

“Some people think I'm crazy, but I love a big family and I have a couple of embryos waiting for me,” the “Living’ la Vida Loca” singer told Entertainment Tonight in November 2020 after welcoming Matteo, Martin, Lucia and Renn with husband Jwan Yosef.

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Emma Roberts

The American Horror Story alum was told to freeze her eggs after her endometriosis diagnosis and felt "terrified," she told Cosmopolitan in November 2020. "Just the thought of going through with it and finding out, perhaps, that I wouldn’t be able to have kids. … It was a difficult process.”

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Savannah Chrisley

“The thought of not being able to have kids is something that I really struggled with,” the Chrisley Knows Best star exclusively told Us in November 2020 while detailing her endometriosis struggles. “I have said that if by the age of, like, 25, 27, if I don't have kids yet, then I will freeze my eggs.”

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Becca Kufrin

"I am in the process of freezing my eggs,” the former Bachelorette said on her Instagram Story in October 2020 after filming her stomach shots. “I think it’s so important as women we know about our bodies and our options. I’m not old, but I’m not a spring chicken. I want kids one day but not anytime soon. I figured, why not do it now in quarantine [amid the coronavirus pandemic]?”

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Scheana Shay

After two rounds of egg freezing, the "Good as Gold" singer considered freezing her and boyfriend Brock Davies' embryos. "I don’t think that is on the agenda right now, but I think before I were to go through a third round of freezing eggs, we would do embryos," Shay said during an August 2020 podcast episode.

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Tinsley Mortimer

"My eggs are still on ice," the Real Housewives of New York City star told Andy Cohen in May 2020.

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Kourtney Kardashian

"I've been so up and down emotional because I’ve been doing the shots for the egg freezing," the Poosh creator said during a 2018 KUWTK episode. "It’s like crazy. I feel like I want to jump out of my skin. I’m so crazy, I can’t take it.”

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Joanna Krupa

In August 2017, the Real Housewives of Miami alum told Life & Style: "You don’t want to wake up one day and be like, ‘My god, what was I thinking?’ I decided a few years ago to freeze them so I would be safe.”

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Halsey

"I want to be a mom more than I want to be a pop star," the American Music Award winner told Rolling Stone in July 2016. "More than I want to be anything in the world.”

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Olivia Munn

The actress froze "a bunch of her eggs," she told Anna Faris in April 2016, adding, "I actually started telling my friends about it, cause it's no longer on the experimental list. I think every girl should do it."

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Sofia Vergara

The Modern Family alum's ex-fiancé, Nick Leob, filed for custody of their two frozen embryos in 2015, but dropped the lawsuit two years later.

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Whitney Cummings

"I think I just wanted to take the pressure off," the comedian said on the Today show in September 2015 of freezing her eggs.

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Maria Menounos

In 2011, the journalist told Dr. Drew Pinsky: "I’m 33, and I decided that I know I have a couple of years of work I want to get to, and then do it. I figured this is kind of an insurance policy."

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Bridget Marquardt

"When I was 34, I went and had my eggs harvested," the former Playboy model exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2011. "Looking back, I was like, 'It was easy,' but it wasn't that easy. It's a lot of medication, a lot of hormones. You have to inject yourself in the stomach and I'm so terrified of needles! It was a difficult thing for me to do."